Obituary: Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Herbert A. ATWOOD ************************************************************************ Submitted by Kathy Grace, June 2005 © All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Daily Northwestern July 10, 1906 p. 3 Death of H.A. Atwood Well-Known Proprietor of Turkish Bath Rooms Expires at His Home on Main Street- Tuberculosis Was the Cause of Death- Deceased Had Lived in This City Twenty Years Herbert A. Atwood, well known throughout the business section of the city, died Monday night at 11:30 o'clock at his residence, 233 Main street, after an illness of three years with tuberculosis. While he had not been well for several years, he had been confined to the house for but one week preceding his death. having been stricken with a series of hemorrhages last week Monday while at work in his Turkish bath rooms on the first floor of the residence building. A nurse was secured for him last Thursday, and the best medical attention was given him, but the end came Monday Herbert Alger Atwood was born in Lake Mills, Wis., fifty-six years ago. He was educated in the schools there, and after following various occupations removed at the age of twenty-eight years to Rochester, Minn., where he engaged in a business similar to that he pursued in this city. After two years he went to Faribault, Minn., where he remained for a like period, and then spent four years in Fargo, N.D., becoming an expert in his line of work. He was married before coming to Oshkosh twenty years ago, the widow, Mrs. Anna D. Atwood, and one daughter, Frances M., surviving him. For four years after coming to this city Mr. Atwood was located at the northeast corner of North Park avenue and Main street, but for the last sixteen years he had been in the building at 236 Main street, which he owned at the time of his death. It is stated by the relatives that the business will be continued. In addition to the widow and one daughter, there is a sister, Mrs. Florence Miller, at Jefferson Junction, Wis. At Lake Mills, the birthplace of the deceased, there is an uncle, D. C. Wood. The remains will be taken to Lake Mills Thursday morning at 8:30 o'clock over the Northwestern line for interment. Services will be held there at the home of an old friend, George W. Black. Mr. Atwood was a member of Centennial lodge, No. 205, of the Masonic order; and of St. John's lodge, No. 9, Knights of Pythias. The Masons will have charge of the funeral, which will take place Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock from the Masonic temple on Main street, and the Masonic ritual will be rendered. The remains will lie in state from eleven o'clock until the hour of the funeral, at the hall, where they may be viewed by friends.